Mississippi Valley Freight CoalitionApril 15, 2009

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Watco Companies

Watco Companies, Inc. was started in 1983 by Charles R. “Dick” Webb with a switching operation in DeRidder, LA that is still in existence today

Coffeyville, KS was our next expansion in 1985 with a car repair facility. This expanded into what is now the SKOL railroad which was the first shortline purchase completed with the Union Pacific

Watco’s focus on Customer satisfaction has grown the company into an all encompassing industry serving rail, mechanical, switching, storage, trucking, warehousing and intermodal needs of Customers throughout twenty-four states

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A Customer Relationship Company

Guiding Principles Improved Customer Satisfaction Improved Safety Improved Profitability & Return on Assets Long-term Vision

Watco will provide the right car, at the right time, at the right price in the right condition with value added.

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Mission Statement

For our customers - Watco companies will provide the best transportation related services to our customers in the most efficient and economical manner possible. We will provide an environment that allows our companies and our people to improve and grow, passing onto future generations a company with an outstanding reputation for customer service, profitability and quality.

For our employees - Watco will provide an environment that challenges our employees to learn, grow and prosper in an atmosphere of respect and recognition. Our employees are proud to work for a thriving company with the opportunity to advance.

For our community - Watco will be a solid corporate Citizen and will encourage community involvement.

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Customer

Watco Services

Railroads

Mechanical

Switching

Distribution Services

Class I’s

Shortlines

Other Customers

Gov. – Eco. Dev.

Strategic Business Model

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Statistics

3rd largest shortline operator in U.S. 435,085 annual carloads 3,500 track miles2,543 railcars - 972 owned, 1,571 leased2,200 employees334 locomotives – 311 owned, 23 leased26 states served22 switching operations 20 shortlines14 mechanical shops and 18 mobile mechanical shops12 transload locations7 warehouses4 locomotive shops2 intermodal locations

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United States Rail System Map

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Watco System Map

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Watco Transportation Services Railroad & Switching Locations

Alabama Southern RailroadABS-Tuscaloosa, ALArkansas Southern RailroadARS-Nashville, ARAustin Western RailroadAWRR-Austin, TXBaton Rouge Southern RailroadBRS – Baton Rouge, LAEastern Idaho RailroadEIRR-Twin Falls, IDGrand Elk RailroadGDLK – Grand Rapids, MIGreat Northwest RailroadGRNW-Lewiston, IDKaw River RailroadKAW-Kansas City, KSKansas & Oklahoma RailroadKO-Wichita, KSLouisiana Southern RailroadLAS-Hodge, LA

Mission Mountain RailroadMMT-Columbia Falls, MTMississippi Southern RailroadMSR-Bay Springs, MSPacific Sun RailroadPSRR – San Diego, CAPalouse River & Coulee City RailroadPCC-Lewiston, IDPennsylvania Southwestern RailroadPSWR-Midland, PASouth Kansas and Oklahoma RailroadSKOL-Cherryvale, KSStillwater Central RailroadSLWC-Oklahoma City, OKTimber Rock RailroadTIBR-Silsbee, TXVicksburg Southern RailroadVSOR-Vicksburg, MSYellowstone Valley RailroadYSVR-Sidney, MT

RAILROADS RAILROADS SWITCHING SERVICESARP Monroeville, ALBoise DeRidder, LABoise Wallula, WACar Repair Tech Houston, TXCondon Arlington, OREDC ElDorado, AREntergy West Lake, LAGPIP Houston, TXInternational Paper Mansfield, LAInternational Paper Prattville, ALNational Starch Kansas City, MO R&H Deer Park, TXSolutia Alvin, TXSolutia Pensacola, FLSolvay Green River, WY Sunoco Tulsa, OKTPC-Petrochem Houston, TXTPC-Petrochecm Port Neches, TXTXI Victorville, CAUP Brimstone, LAVentura Ontario, CAWestvaco DeRidder, LA

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RAILCAR SHOPSCoffeyville, KS

Council Bluffs, IAFitzgerald, GAHockley, TX

Hollidaysburg, PA Houston, TX

Jacksonville, FL Junction City, KS

Marshall, TXNeodesha, KS

Omaha, NEPittsburg, KS

Wood River, ILZwolle, LA

MECHANICAL MOBILEChanute Chanute, KSFWWR Ft. Worth, TXG&W East Peoria, ILHodge Hodge, LAHouston Houston, TXIdaho Falls Idaho Falls, IDKansas City Kansas City, KSLewiston Lewiston, ID MNA Carthage, MOOKC Oklahoma City, OK Prattville Prattville, ALRupert Rupert, IDSilsbee Silsbee, TXTuscaloosa Tuscaloosa, ALUP Hermiston, IDVicksburg Vicksburg, MSWichita Wichita, KSWinfield Winfield, KS

LOCOMOTIVE SHOPSLewiston, IDSilsbee, TX

Vicksburg, MSWichita, KS

Watco Mechanical Services Mechanical Locations

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Watco Transload & Intermodal ServicesTransload, Intermodal & Warehouse

INTERMODALSt. Louis, MOHouston, TX

WAREHOUSES

Reload Warehouse Glendale AZGPIP Houston, TX Reload Warehouse La Crosse, WICentral Warehouse Pittsburg, KSIndustrial Park Pittsburg, KSReload Warehouse Rockford, IL Reload Warehouse St. Louis, MO

TRANSLOADING

KO Transload Great Bend, KSKO Transload Hutchinson, KSLAS Transload Minden, LAMMT Transload Eureka, MTReload Transload Glendale AZReload Transload La Crosse, WIReload Transload Lawton, OKReload Transload OKC, OKReload Transload Rockford, ILReload Transload Stroud, OK Reload Transload St. Louis, MOTIBR Transload Silsbee, TX

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Switching Services

Watco Switching Services began providing specialized industrial contract switching services in 1983. We offer a wide variety of contractual switching services to our existing customer base located in 21 different locations throughout the US. We continue to provide switching services to our original customer we began with in 1983. Our customer retention is built with long-term partnerships thus providing customers with safe, efficient rail switching services. Our safety record is among the top in this industry.

We currently serve the Paper, Chemical, Petroleum,Forest products, Metals and ores, Aggregate, and Intermodal Industries.

Exceed each customer’s rail switching needs. On-site managers to work jointly with the customer, the serving railroad and the switching crew to ensure safe, prompt, efficient service.

There are currently 270 employees in the switching division

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Switching Services

Car inspections, thus reducing car rejections at the loading dock.

Car cleaning, thus reducing car rejections at the loading dock

Car repair to ensure railcars are suitable for product loading

Track inspection and maintenance

Computerized yard inventory reports

Assist with plant personnel in other aspects

of their business

AEI tag readers for inventory control

Computer programs for yard management.

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Mechanical Services

Railcar Repair Fourteen locations throughout the United States May 2007 - Acquired Millennium Rail, a fully-integrated provider of repair and maintenance

services such as fleet management, general repair and maintenance, specialty freight car manufacturing and program work

June 2008 – Acquired Fitzgerald Railcar Services, Inc., a comprehensive railcar repair and maintenance company, expanding services to Georgia and Nebraska

Mobile Repair Services Eighteen mobile rail locations Contract and emergency repairs including, coal fleets, preparation and cleaning of boxcars and

refrigerated cars

Locomotive Repair Four locations available to meet Watco and

Customer needs

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Fleet Management

Car repair historyRailroad repair auditingContract shop auditingRebilling/rebuttal billingBad order carsRailroad damage carsCar repair analysisForecasting and budgetingAccounts payable

Financial distributionCar hire accountingDepreciated value statementsAAR mandated programsMechanical informationFleet MasterUMLER/EMIS administrationCar repair billing

Fleet management is a key to rail industry success, and Watco’s MRI team has the experience and resources to manage your railcar fleet --regardless of its size and specific needs. Our services are there for you to pick and choose. Fleet managements scope of services include:

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Transload & Intermodal Services

Watco’s Transload & Intermodal Services provides customers with a unique blend of rail centric logistic solutions allowing customers to optimize growth potential. Reload, Inc., a 25 year-old warehousing and distribution company, was acquired in January of 2008 expanding Watco’s ability to provide transloading and warehousing services to our customers. Services offered include:

Rail Logistics

Warehousing

Transloading

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Rail Logistics, Warehousing, Transloading and Trucking Consulting Consolidation and deconsolidation of truckloads to rail, rail to

multi-destination truckloads Railcar ordering and fulfillment Billing railcar shipments Bundled pricing Transloading Cross Dock Storage Inventory management Truck dispatching Flatbeds, vans, stretch and drop deck trailers

Transload & Intermodal Services

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Houston & St. Louis Intermodal

Ramp/Deramp services Lift maintenance servicesGround stack operations“Flips” and “Swings” of containers

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Real Estate and Industrial Development

Provides customers with resources to facilitate the growth of their business

Locates land for new plants Assist in identifying optimum locations utilizing rail, warehouse or

distribution services Identifying space to locate team track to unload product

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Greens Port Industrial Park

Warehousing

Lay down storage

Located near Interstate 10 and

Highway 225

Leasing of industrial property

Access to 1,080 linear foot

deep water dock and barge

Contract stevedoring

Rail and truck transportation

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Tracking and Trending

At Watco we strongly believe that you cannot improve on what you cannot measure. We track and trend not only our service but the impact our customers actions have on our ability to serve them. We provide value added daily, weekly, and monthly reports to our Class 1 partners and to our customers. These reports allow us to proactively monitor trends and schedule meetings to discuss trends that can affect our mutual goals and productivity.

Thinking “outside the box” and generating ideas to increase productivity will ensure that our customers are competitive in today’s highly competitive Global Markets.

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Tracking and Trending

The bottom line is that if we succeed in helping our customers become more efficient, then we will have succeeded in making sure our railroad, its employees and the communities we serve will be around for a long time. Then, we will have truly achieved the elusive Win-Win scenario that is so hard to come by, but so rewarding when it happens.

The following pages contain charts that illustrate some of the trend reports we share with our customers.

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Tracking and Trending

1.56 1.74 1.74 1.22 1.00 1.33 1.221.09 1.14 1.14 0.82 0.69 0.89 0.820.34 0.40 0.40 0.27 0.20 0.30 0.270.14 0.17 0.17 0.13 0.11 0.14 0.13

12.62 12.83 12.83 9.49 6.66 10.98 0.00 0.00 0.00 9.491.34 1.18 1.18 1.72 2.11 1.33 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.72Average Days Online

Net Operations Man Hours Per Revenue MoveNet Track Man Hours Per Revenue MoveNet Locomotive Man Hours Per Revenue MoveLoco Fuel Gallons Per Revenue Move

EFFICIENCY EFFECTTotal Net Man Hours Per Revenue Move

23-Nov 30-Nov(MTD) Totals

"Actual"

November Weekly Average

2-Nov 9-Nov 16-Nov

Measurement

2006 YTD Weekly Average

2007 YTD Weekly Average

TOTALS (YTD)

November-07

EIRR WEEKLY QUANTITATIVE PERFORMANCEWEEKLY PERFORMANCE TRACKING - 2007

ABS ARTES BROOK FOX GORDO HOLT NORTH TSCSA Total

ARTES 2.8 1.9 1.9 1.9 2

BROOK 1.8 0.7 3.2 1.9

FOX 4 4

GORDO 4.5 4.5

HOLT 2.1 1.4 3.5 2 2

NORTH 1.3 4.2 1.9

TSCSA 2.9 2.7 3.9 1.7 5.3 3.1

Total 2 1.9 1.5 3.2 3.6 1.8 2.5 2.1

On Time Delivery Days Online

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Watco Safety Commitment

Watco is committed to safety for our employees

Compliance with our new policies and regulations is essential and required to ensure the safety of our employees and our company

Compliance with our rules/policies and with regulations is not an option but a condition of employment with Watco Services

Strong, effective relationships with our customers are highly encouraged and are essential to the continued improvement of our company

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Watco Companies Finance Background

Proven Strategic Capabilities: Experienced management team. Proven financial performance. Revenue and cash flow diversification by service. Customer and commodity diversification. Proven performance in economic down cycles.

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Watco CompaniesReview

Watco is an experienced leader in the Transportation Industry.Turn key operation includes all freight services and scheduling.Comprehensive logistics system for railcar planning, scheduling, tracing and inventory control. Proactive goal and trend measurement. Watco believes that you cannot improve what you cannot measure. We believe strongly in establishing baselines, trending, and tracking to measure productivity. Experienced management and crew base for smooth transition on startups. We will keep your operations running 365 days a year, guaranteed!